- Calyptra (genus)
Taxobox
name = "Calyptra"
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
subphylum =Hexapoda
classis =Insect a
ordo =Lepidoptera
superfamilia =Noctuoidea
familia =Noctuidae
subfamilia =Calpinae
tribus = Calpini
tribus_authority =
genus = "Calyptra"
genus_authority = Ochsenheimer, 1816
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = see textThe
genus "Calyptra" is a group ofmoth s insubfamily Calpinae of the familyNoctuidae . They are a member of the Calpini tribe. whose precise circumscription is uncertain but includes a number of other fruit-piercing or eye-frequenting genera currently classified in the subfamily Calpinae [http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Calpinae] .The common name of many of these species, vampire moth, refers to the habit that they have of drinking blood from vertebrates. According to a recent study some of them (Calyptra thalictri) are even capable of drinking human blood through skin [http://www.epl.ee/artikkel/388410]
Some species of this genus have been classified with genus name "Calpe" and they include more than one blood-sucker.
Some species of "Calyptra"
* "Calyptra albivirgata" (Hampson, 1926).
* "Calyptra bicolor" (Moore, 1883).
* "Calyptra canadensis" (Bethune, 1865), Canadian Owlet Moth.
* "Calyptra eustrigata", Vampire moth in Southeast Asia.
* "Calyptra fasciata" (Moore, 1882).
* "Calyptra fletcheri" (Berio, 1956).
* "Calyptra hokkaida" (Wileman, 1922), in Japan.
* "Calyptra labilis", Vampire moth, in Thailand.
* "Calyptra lata" (Butler, 1881), a large light tan colored moth of east Asia [http://olegberlov.narod.ru/noc82.html] .
* "Calyptra minuticornis" (Guenée, 1852), Vampire moth in Thailand and Malaysia.
* "Calyptra nyei" (Bänziger, 1979).
* "Calyptra ophideroides" (Guenée, 1852).
* "Calyptra orthographa" (Butler, 1886), Vampire moth in northern Thailand and northern Laos.
* "Calyptra pseudobicolor" Bänziger, 1979.
* "Calyptra thalictri" (Borkhausen, 1790) in Hungary, Armenia, Kyrghyzstan. This species have been spotted as far north as central Finland and central Sweden.External links
* [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/calpinae/calyptra/index.html Moths of genus "Calyptra"]
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